Are you looking at about two or three times where he slipped and fell and caused scores or the whole body of work? I ask because before I looked at his whole body of work I had a similar opinion. Is he the best OSU has had back there? Nope. Is he good? Yup, but he has this caveat that his broken now healed leg seems to cause some balance or footwork issues.

From my perspective, the "hump" OSU football needs to get over is mental.

If what you're saying is correct about Harrison and Egbuka, why didn't they put Harrison back in as a decoy and let him run routes? Let him pull that third defender you're talking about a few times so Egbuka could catch the ball.

I believe there's a song with lyrics that go something like:

"...The seasons pass the years will roll, time and change will surely show, how firm thy friendship..."

Ok, soooooo approximately the GDP of Samoa.

Breaks my heart.

Nebraska isn't anymore. They were when the Big Ten offered in 2010 but after joining they closed their on-campus hospital (I think) and were kicked out of the AAU in 2011.

And no one is pitching a tent in your front yard.

The number of homeless people near UCLA has skyrocketed as of late. The veterans park on the west side (near UCLA) recently let the homeless veterans in to stay there and it looks like they created a lot of small one-bedroom temporary buildings for them to stay in. Otherwise, the parks are full of tents these days, the underpasses are occupied, and it's not uncommon to see people in the streets looking lost and yelling. I wouldn't be surprised if this helped motivate his decision to get away from the West LA area, but I'm willing to bet a pay raise along with working with Day again was more motivating.

Here's to hoping they leave GA out and include ND for better or worse!

tbh... Cincy looked like a better team than M*ch*g*n...

That would be an interesting 1 v 4 matchup. Georgia barely beat Cincinnati 24-21 in the Peach Bowl last year on a last-minute, career-long field goal (and a gimme safety on a hail mary attempt).

Could you imagine an OSU v Cincinnati national championship game?

That Alabama show posted above is just cringey.  It's an ADD fest with movement everywhere and that dancing... ew.  I've never liked corps style bands.

Had a HS friend who went to Alabama and he was proud the band wasn't the "Pride of Alabama" like TBDBITL is the "Pride of the Buckeyes".  He thought it was cool they were just the "Million dollar band".

Obviously I don't know the details, but I wouldn't be surprised if, with a non SEC or ACC team in the NC game, ESPN would have to pay rights to use the other team and conference info, branding, etc.  Meaning it wasn't already negotiated, like it is with the SEC and ACC conferences.

Perhaps if OSU were in, the Big Ten conference and/or network would have to be paid an amount, as well as to Ohio State itself.

In that case, having an SEC-ACC NC game could allow for all three (SEC, ACC, ESPN) to make more than if it were a Big12-SEC game, or a Pac12-Big10 game.  To me, having ESPN signed with the SEC and ACC conferences is a conflict of interest.

Dunno really, not a conspiracy kind of person, but if there is a conspiracy, that's where it'd be - follow the money, as they say.  That and I heard on TV that the OSU-Clemson game had more money riding on it than any NFL game or something like that.

2. Totally agree with this.  It was running into the kicker - the 5 yard penalty - not the roughing the kicker version.  Either way, I think it was going to give Clemson a 1st down.

5. Yep, not much else to say.  Everyone knows if that ball wasn't intentionally stripped that's a catch and he runs out of bounds with it.

That's kinda sick but I have to agree.  When they announced the refs I was like "Great, OSU is gonna lose now"... How bad is the perception and bias out there that those are the thoughts we have?

Alabama getting blown out is exactly what college football needed.

I think we all know it's fallout deep down, but we expect a higher standard from the likes of ESPN and the rest of the media and so don't want to believe it.  We expect a more honest approach to the whole thing and not immature backlash because a school didn't fire the coach like the media wanted them to.

I feel this season was a mix of politics and sports that should never happen.  I'm glad it's almost over and really want next year to be better.

I was kinda thinking Mack Brown as the retired coach - he and Meyer are friends.  Fickell would be an obvious choice, as would Vrabel.

I don't think OSU could hire Tressel back without backlash.

I get your point, and I wondered that myself.  Here's what I've settled on:

1. No matter who comes in, there's going to be a drop off.  Nick Saban went 7-6 at Alabama in his first year, and Dabo Sweeney went 7-6 at Clemson.  Lincoln Riley is the outlier going 12-2 in his first season.  If Day pulls off a 12-2 or better season - that'd just be amazing.

2. Recruits aren't flocking away and many affirmed their commitment.  I've seen several more tweets of those staying than those leaving - based all on articles on this site.

3. Coach Day has earned the respect of Meyer's staff.  That is really all I need to know to give Day trust up front and give him a chance.  Meyer's-now-Day's staff it sounds like will mostly be intact - and it's the staff that does the leg work.  I don't expect much of an issue at first.

I think the real picture of the kind of Coach Day will be when he has his own recruits in 3-4 years and when Meyer's staff starts leaving, but I think giving him the benefit of the doubt is the better way to go.  However, if he does pull off multiple 8-4 and 7-5 seasons, then I hope he moves on.  That's not the standard set at OSU, and he knows it.

Absolutely, I had no idea it was that bad and is a decision to coach or live.

It's probably a combo of both Schiano and Davis, but these linebackers have been called out by everyone all season as being lost and out of place.  In my opinion, it would be nice for Schiano to get a chance at the defense with a good linebackers coach.  He was a coach for some good defenses, though with Fickell.

I think I would take it one step further, expand it to 10 teams and each FBS conference champ ranked in the top 25 gets to go.  Not ranked that high, your spot becomes an at large spot.  No conference? you would rely on at large bids.

Here's how I would do it:  Conference champs seeded first.  Then at large teams seeded last.  Didn't win your conference, you don't get seeded higher than a conference champ. (e.g. 1. Alabama, 2. Clemson, 3. Oklahoma, 4. Ohio State, 5. UCF, 6. Washington, 7. Fresno State, 8 Notre Dame, 9. Georgia, 10 Michigan).  Considering 5 of the conferences don't routinely have champions ranked in the top 25, that would create a lot of room for at-large bids while guaranteeing a team like UCF and Boise State from a few years ago have a chance at the title.  In the off chance all 10 FBS conferences have top 25 ranked conference champions we have a built in system to handle it.

You don't need a committee for that... the old polls or even the BCS rankings will do.  The drama around ranking someone 25 or 26 would be much less than keeping a strong team (i.e. top 10 team) from a chance at a national championship.

Yep, this has been bugging me a lot.  This fanbase is trying to say OSU is less deserving because of the Purdue loss.  That's just kicking yourself while you're down.  Hell yeah OSU deserves a shot as they're just as good as OK if not better.  Just because it's not obvious OSU is better and should be in doesn't mean OSU doesn't belong in.

The committees charter is to find the best 4 teams - technically speaking that could mean a team that screwed the pooch in the first 6 games and then just absolutely dominated the last 6.  Looking at a bad loss and saying OSU is undeserving is the exact thinking the committee is supposed to get away from.

For those interested, bitcoin's cryptography

It's an elliptic cryptographic system.

Speaking of the gold pants, I've always thought Michigan should give out silver pants to their players after one of their wins.